Question: In what ways is the reader seduced or comforted by the ideas in the works studied and in what ways challenged or alienated?
The writer can affect the reader in a negative or positive way through the author’s use of literary devices such as narrative voice, tone, and symbolism. The reader is definitely affected in the literary works, The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano and in A Doll House. However, depending on the reader’s sociocultural context and historical context, the reader could have been either seduced and confronted or challenged and alienated. The audience can either agree or disagree with what the author is attempting to portray, thus leading people of different backgrounds to react differently. …show more content…
A majority of Britain was Christian, including parliament; therefore, by constantly stating religious allusions and diction, he comforts and seduces Parliament. Equiano also uses religion diction to make parliament feel guilty about slavery. Using religious diction as a form of getting his exigence across is very helpful because Equiano comforts parliament and then he attacks. Equiano also includes many well known literary works that parliament, as educated men, would most likely know. Examples that he includes are pieces from The Iliad and Paradise Lost. Just like religion, Equiano attempts to get his exigence across through these literary works. At the beginning of the book itself, Equiano includes a frontispiece, which is very deceiving, but provides comfort to parliament, his audience. Equiano dresses with British clothing and even British hairstyle as holds an open bible. The caption of the image is, “Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African.” This image not only shows his love and respect for Britain, which provides comfort and seduction to the parliament. By using something that parliament is comfortable and familiar with to get his exigence across, Equiano makes his exigence
The writer can affect the reader in a negative or positive way through the author’s use of literary devices such as narrative voice, tone, and symbolism. The reader is definitely affected in the literary works, The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano and in A Doll House. However, depending on the reader’s sociocultural context and historical context, the reader could have been either seduced and confronted or challenged and alienated. The audience can either agree or disagree with what the author is attempting to portray, thus leading people of different backgrounds to react differently. …show more content…
A majority of Britain was Christian, including parliament; therefore, by constantly stating religious allusions and diction, he comforts and seduces Parliament. Equiano also uses religion diction to make parliament feel guilty about slavery. Using religious diction as a form of getting his exigence across is very helpful because Equiano comforts parliament and then he attacks. Equiano also includes many well known literary works that parliament, as educated men, would most likely know. Examples that he includes are pieces from The Iliad and Paradise Lost. Just like religion, Equiano attempts to get his exigence across through these literary works. At the beginning of the book itself, Equiano includes a frontispiece, which is very deceiving, but provides comfort to parliament, his audience. Equiano dresses with British clothing and even British hairstyle as holds an open bible. The caption of the image is, “Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African.” This image not only shows his love and respect for Britain, which provides comfort and seduction to the parliament. By using something that parliament is comfortable and familiar with to get his exigence across, Equiano makes his exigence